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Post by inca on Sept 21, 2013 10:36:23 GMT
Am in the middle of moving house and decided to move some furniture today. Have learned a few things so far, that i probably wouldn't without adhd. 1. If you move a sofa behind a door, giving you just enough room to squeeze through, it is impossible to get a large table through the gap, no matter how hard you push. 2. when dismantling flat packed furniture, getting fed up with using a screwdriver and deciding just to pull, splits wood. 3. When putting up flat packed furniture, the thought 'it doesn't matter if i destroy the head of this screw as i won't be taking it out', leads to problems taking it out a few years later. 4. Similarly, the thought 'I'll put this screw in as tight as possible' leads to problems taking it out again. 5. You can't get 2 bookcases, a table, a desk, a double bed frame, a large dog cage, a tv unit, 3 dogs and yourself into one car - no matter how many times you try to rearrange them.
Sure i Will learn more as the weekend goes on and i rebuild the furniture - which incidentally i love doing. Does anyone else find flat building flat packed furniture really logical and relaxing?
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Post by jan on Sept 21, 2013 10:53:12 GMT
don't talk to me about flat packs I bought a bread bin from argos last year - it only had three pieces (maybe 4 - can't rem now ) spent three whole days trying to put bloody thing together - ended up taking it back drove me mad (er ) once spent whole week putting metal computer stand together don't do ANYTHING now unless its put together BEFORE I buy it!!!! unless got helpful male around and they few and far between these days (and me supposed to be a feminist ) when moved to this house packed so much stuff in my mates van and no room to sit in front had to lie horizontal on top of wardrobe - spread eagled - hanging on for dear life to top of it with fingers - my head an inch away from ceiling of van talk about undignified !! thankfully I don't do skirts good luck with your move - and size of doorways
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Post by inca on Sept 21, 2013 11:40:06 GMT
Lol - could so imagine doing that! Thanks, although i am quite lucky, as moving with mum for a little while, so don't need to get everything shifted at once. Btw, how do you get the smileys? i am using a phone to access stuff at minute, as no internet from pc as yet, so maybe that's why i can't get them - or maybe looking in wrong place! Will also apologise in advance if i say anything strange - predictive text that disappears off the page so can't read it until have pressed send may well cause problems
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Post by jan on Sept 21, 2013 13:01:18 GMT
I can't get the smileys when on my phone either strange is no prob on here you'll fit in well we used to strange
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2013 14:38:14 GMT
Does anyone else find flat building flat packed furniture really logical and relaxing? I'm trying to think of something more frustrating than trying to put together flat pack stuff. Nope, can't think of anything!
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Post by JJ on Sept 21, 2013 20:26:53 GMT
I have a love / hate relationship with flat pack - I can do it as long as everyone stays the f*ck away from me . It's intensely irritating and frustrating Always wish someone else would do it for me Yet when someone does help, I feel all contro-freakery and can't cope with the anxiety that they're not doing it as well as me Do get enormous satisfaction from seeing the finished result
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Post by Kathymel on Sept 21, 2013 22:14:52 GMT
I love doing it and also get massive satisfaction from completing it, but it takes sooooooo long sometimes and I get very impatient.
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Post by computermandan on Sept 30, 2013 10:52:54 GMT
lol... I break flat pack kits too... am a little bit careless... have lots of pots of PVA glue in pretty much every "man box" that exists in my house and shed... still can't find them.
Do you blame the furniture for breaking itself too? (I get told off for blaming 'things' when I broke them).
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